Barry and Dalai Play in the Basement

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Feb 21, 2014 at 12:01 AMFeb 21, 2014 at 4:28 PM

The Dalai Lama is coming to the White House. Barry is bringing him in through the back door, and they will be playing in the Map Room rather than the Oval Office. This is akin to having that weird friend over when you are a kid, and your parents send you down to the basement to play rather than letting you go into the living room, with the plastic covered good furniture.

So, let’s be clear. The Dalai Lama is the head of Tibet, which is under occupation from China. Slowly but surely, China is ethnically cleansing Tibet of its native language, culture and religion. China is also diluting the population by moving in non-Tibetan ethnic Chinese, and is, let’s be frank, raping Tibet of its mineral wealth.

Now, supposedly this Regime supports rights of self determination, and the rights of people to select their own rulers. As Kerry will tell anyone who will listen, the US disapproves of occupied territories and thinks that all occupiers should go home. And Kerry is quick to point out that the laws of occupation specifically require a degree not only of autonomy for the native peoples, but also prohibit altering demographic facts on the ground and require the occupying power not to remove assets–cultural or mineral or whatever. And, it is Barry’s purported policy that the United States should encourage talks to end occupation status.

Except for Tibet. You see, China owns the United States. Obama has this nasty thing about taxing and spending like a sailor. And when those nasty Republicans don’t want more debt, well, Obama has a stroke and proclaims that the Republicans are just bad people for saying that the Republicans would rather shut down the government than bow to Beijing. But when we borrow, and when our country becomes the de facto property of a foreign state, our country loses the ability to tell our erstwhile overseer to shove it when foreign policy is being dictated to us. So, China orders Obama to dis the Dalai, a representative of a sovereign and peaceful people with a legitimate claim to American assistance, and Barry agrees to do so. Come on Dalai, Barry says, let’s play Risk next to the furnace.

Rob Meltzer

The Dalai Lama is coming to the White House. Barry is bringing him in through the back door, and they will be playing in the Map Room rather than the Oval Office. This is akin to having that weird friend over when you are a kid, and your parents send you down to the basement to play rather than letting you go into the living room, with the plastic covered good furniture.

So, let’s be clear. The Dalai Lama is the head of Tibet, which is under occupation from China. Slowly but surely, China is ethnically cleansing Tibet of its native language, culture and religion. China is also diluting the population by moving in non-Tibetan ethnic Chinese, and is, let’s be frank, raping Tibet of its mineral wealth.

Now, supposedly this Regime supports rights of self determination, and the rights of people to select their own rulers. As Kerry will tell anyone who will listen, the US disapproves of occupied territories and thinks that all occupiers should go home. And Kerry is quick to point out that the laws of occupation specifically require a degree not only of autonomy for the native peoples, but also prohibit altering demographic facts on the ground and require the occupying power not to remove assets–cultural or mineral or whatever. And, it is Barry’s purported policy that the United States should encourage talks to end occupation status.

Except for Tibet. You see, China owns the United States. Obama has this nasty thing about taxing and spending like a sailor. And when those nasty Republicans don’t want more debt, well, Obama has a stroke and proclaims that the Republicans are just bad people for saying that the Republicans would rather shut down the government than bow to Beijing. But when we borrow, and when our country becomes the de facto property of a foreign state, our country loses the ability to tell our erstwhile overseer to shove it when foreign policy is being dictated to us. So, China orders Obama to dis the Dalai, a representative of a sovereign and peaceful people with a legitimate claim to American assistance, and Barry agrees to do so. Come on Dalai, Barry says, let’s play Risk next to the furnace.

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